We help founders raise money, engage their communities, and scale for the future.
Global investor community1
Capital raised2
Unicorns in portfolio3
Fast and effective
Get started in minutes. Launch in days. Republic has a 90% success rate for companies that have raised on our platform.
More than just money
Companies have tripled user bases, sold millions worth of product, gained press coverage, connected with VCs, and raised follow-on rounds at great terms with the help of their Republic campaign.
VC friendly
Our Crowd SAFE is VC-approved. You can raise capital on Republic before, during, or after your venture round. A crowd round is an important complement to traditional VC, not its replacement.
Republic is with you every step of the way—before, during, and after your campaign—so you can focus on building your business across the globe.
A seamless experience from start to finish. From pitching to promotion to payments, we've got you covered.
Scalable investor management tools
Our in-house investor relations team and founder-friendly tools make it easier than ever to manage your investors, send updates about your campaign, and more.
Marketing expertise and exposure
Our marketing team will help you craft the perfect pitch and drive traffic to your campaign. Exposure to our 2.5M+ potential investors is part of the package.
Dedicated legal and onboarding lead
Don't go it alone. Launch quickly and efficiently with concierge-level care from our onboarding and legal teams.
Access to founder and partner networks
Get lifetime access to our alumni community and partner network after your campaign closes—not to mention our network of 200+ VC funds.
Success-based
structure
Our fees depend on the success of your campaign so you'll never overpay. We've got skin in the game—which means you can count on us to be all in.
Frictionless
investment flow
We make the payment process quick and easy, with options to suit any user preference. Republic supports payment by credit card, debit card, ACH, and wire transfer.
Delight your community by allowing investors to pay with crypto.
Invite customers and fans onto your cap table and watch them transform into true brand ambassadors. These features are designed with community in mind.
Launch in minutes
Spin up a teaser page and start gathering indications of interest right away.
Put your community first
Offer exclusivity with a whitelist solution designed to reward your most die-hard supporters.
Social capital
Extract value from your community beyond just capital with our networking tool.
Raise with no limits
From small private rounds to Reg D campaigns with no limit, we offer any configuration to fit your needs.
Sharedrops
Republic is the only platform that lets you reward your community with airdrops of equity.
White label campaign
Own the entire end-to-end design of the investment flow for the ultimate branded experience.
We've helped over 600 founders raise capital—and we're just getting started. Here's what a few of them had to say about Republic.
Chris Boyd
Founder, Drink Monday
Republic made me a true believer in the power of equity crowdfunding. Monday's success on the platform not only yielded critical capital to fuel plans for growth but connected us to investors who truly care about what we're building and became some of our most impactful ambassadors in the process. If you're an entrepreneur or brand looking for any of the above, give Republic a serious look.
Matthew Sullivan
Founder, QuantmRE
We have run two successful capital raising campaigns on Republic. On both occasions our experience was nothing short of excellent. Their onboarding, campaign creation and investor management processes are seamless and intuitive… Republic consistently delivered on their promise and it was a pleasure working with them.
Ediva Zanker
Co-Founder, GRIT BXNG
Working with Republic on our GRIT BXNG raise was seamless. We worked with them during the height of the pandemic and despite so many uncertainties, Republic was stellar in helping us navigate a raise during a difficult time. I would highly recommend using Republic for anybody looking to raise money for their company.
Jae Bang
Founder, Oracle Health
It was a pleasure to work with the Republic team. It was a collaborative partnership where we shared ideas, vision and plan for execution. This open communication was extended to all levels of the organization and our investor base.
Raising on Republic means getting your brand in front of a diverse group of investors that drive results. The numbers speak for themselves:
We understand the roles that quality and diligence play in maintaining a quality marketplace for our founders & investors.
Simple, fast, and effective
Our top-tier deal flow has already paid back millions to Republic investors, and we’re just getting started.
Simple, fast, and effective
We tirelessly protect the interests of founders and investors, while driving industry innovation behind the scenes directly with the SEC.
Premier partners choose Republic
Custom partnerships with Carta, Alto, Bitpay, and other industry-leaders can help you manage your cap table, accept IRA and crypto investments, and so much more.
From our industry-leading crypto and private capital businesses, to
Broker Dealer
Giving anyone the opportunity to invest in high-growth startups, real estate, crypto, local businesses, video games, and other alternative assets—for as little as $100.⁵
Web 3 Advisory
Seed-to-liquidity solutions via our vertically integrated products including advisory, financing, token engineering, and token offerings that connect top tier blockchain projects with their communities.
Asset Management
Providing access to extensive deal flow to family offices, ultra high net worth individuals, and institutions across multiple stages, sectors, and locations.²
Asian Markets
Providing access to extensive deal flow to family offices, ultra high net worth individuals, and institutions across multiple stages, sectors, and locations.²
European Markets
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Everything you need to manage your investors effectively and quickly.
Put your best foot forward. Our marketing team will help you craft the perfect pitch and drive traffic to your campaign.
Put your company in front of Republic's community of 2.5M+ investors, entrepreneurs, and builders.
Don't do it alone. Launch quickly and efficiently with concierge-level care from our onboarding and legal teams.
Get lifetime access to our alumni community and partner network after your campaign closes.
Get one step closer to hundreds of VCs in our network for potential follow-on funding rounds.
6% cash + 2% of the securities sold. Our simplified process keeps legal costs much lower than you think.
Frictionless investing to fit any user preference. Republic supports credit cards, debit cards, ACH, and wire transfers.
Let your customers and fans buy into your mission and turn them into real brand ambassadors.
and our team is ready to help.
We spun out of our investor, partner, and sister company AngelList in 2016 after the SEC enacted Reg CF—the regulation that allows for everyone to invest in startups. Our CEO Kendrick Nguyen previously was General Counsel at AngelList. More than $1.5B has been raised across the Republic ecosystem.
Our most common fundraising instrument is the Crowd SAFE, and for that agreement we typically let founders and companies take the first stab at setting the most important term: the valuation cap. Our investment team reviews the proposed valuation cap and justification and may work with the founder to amend it if necessary.
In cases where a company is raising a private round concurrently with their Republic campaign, we ask that they mirror the terms of that round.
Most companies raise between $100k and $1M. The amount raised during a campaign depends on many factors such as the size of your community, growth stage, existing investors, and market conditions. Most companies use Republic to leverage their communities, build fans, and complement the capital they raise from VCs. Our team can help you identify a target raise amount based on a variety of success indicators.
Upwards of 90% of campaigns on Republic meet their minimum funding goal. Marketing your campaign to your community & beyond is key to a successful raise.
In order to run a Regulation CF campaign, companies are required to file a Form C with the SEC. This form will include some basic high-level information about the company’s financial history from the past two years: balance sheet, income statement and cash flow. It also will include risk disclosures and cap table structure, but individual investor names don’t need to be shown.
It’s actually pretty inexpensive. Most companies spend about $3k-5k before launching their campaign on making their Form C filing.
Republic takes a success-based commission at the end of a campaign: 7% of the money raised in cash, and 2% of the securities issued. For example, if you were to raise $100,000 on Republic, we would take $7,000 in cash and a $2,000 Crowd SAFE. In the unlikely event a campaign doesn’t meet its minimum target, Republic does not take any fees.
Companies pay for the escrow agent and payment processing at the end of the campaign. This typically comes out to about 1.5-2.25% of the capital raised. (The final cost depends on the volume of investment through different sources like credit card, ACH, or wire transfer.)
Using a nominee structure, investors are represented as a single line item on your company’s cap table summary, and there is no limit to the amount of investors who can participate. We’ve designed the platform and process to eliminate operational overhead and optimize for efficiency with subsequent fundraising or an exit event. Your success is our investors’ success, which is ultimately Republic’s success too. If you choose to convert investors to equity after raising more rounds, those investors who invested via a nominee round on Republic can be converted to a single equity shareholder (and “holder of record”) on your cap table through a custodial arrangement, with the custodian represented as the owner of record.
We’ve designed the platform to be as seamless as possible—even after a campaign. Since we use a Crowd SAFE, investors aren’t equity holders and don’t have voting or information rights. While these investors can be pretty powerful from a marketing perspective, we’ve kept them passive from a legal point of view. That said, we do highly recommend that companies use our dashboard to draft and send a twice-yearly updates to investors. It can be pretty top-level, and it’s a great way to let them know how they can help drive the company’s growth: sharing promotions, making introductions, hiring, etc.
Most companies make only one additional disclosure filing post-campaign—the Form C-AR, which is a light refresh to the Form C. It takes about 1-2 hrs to complete, and most companies can do it themselves.
Almost certainly not. We’ve had companies that have raised $10M, $17M, and even $50M before running an investment campaign with Republic—from more than 200 top names in venture like Founders Fund, Lerer Hippeau, Bain Capital Ventures, and Greycroft. For companies at this later stage, a Republic raise is usually more about the campaign’s marketing value than it is about the capital itself. B2C companies often see huge increases in product sales, user acquisition and LTV directly attributable to the campaign, and B2B companies use campaigns to source partnerships and drive inbound sales leads.
Our community is comprised of hundreds of thousands of investors and a strong network of ecosystem partners. After you have initially engaged your network and community, we’ll help you tap into Republic’s network through dedicated email promotions, newsletter features, social media posts, our ongoing communications with ecosystem and media partners, and more.
Regulation CF, or Regulation Crowdfunding, refers to part of new legislation enacted in May 2016 by the SEC. The law enabled non-accredited investors (the majority of the U.S. population) to invest in private companies for the first time.
Aside from marketing the campaign to your networks and communities, your primary responsibility post-launch will be fielding questions from investors and potential investors. During the campaign, interested investors can ask questions on a public forum for your team to answer. This forum has the benefit of preventing prospective investors from asking the same questions multiple times. You are not obligated to interact with this forum, but the data shows that the team’s engagement level and quality of answers is a key driver of campaign success.
Earn a $2,500 referral fee when you refer a business that raises on Republic.
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3 A unicorn is a company worth $1B+
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